Revealed: the stark evidence of everyday racial bias in Britain

On Dec 3, 2018

Poll commissioned to launch series on unconscious bias shows gulf in negative experiences by ethnicity

The extent of racial bias faced by black, Asian and minority ethnic citizens in 21st-century Britain has been laid bare in an unprecedented study showing a gulf in how people of different ethnicities are treated in their daily lives.

A survey for the Guardian of 1,000 people from minority ethnic backgrounds found they were consistently more likely to have faced negative everyday experiences – all frequently associated with racism – than white people in a comparison poll.